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Topic: [4+ EH] Slush Pool (slushpool.com); Overt AsicBoost; World First Mining Pool - page 550. (Read 4382714 times)

legendary
Activity: 1750
Merit: 1007
If luck is equal, you'll make more on BTC Guild counting NMC.  If luck is not equal, obviously it depends on which pool was lucky and which wasn't.

Also, Guild has _NO_ penalty on payouts for shared hash rate or failover.  PPLNS does not penalize you if you leave, unlike exponential score where shares become worthless shortly after they're submitted in long rounds.  Once the share is submitted, it's paid just like every other until it expires (after it leaves the 'N' window).

Also:  If you submit a share, it continues to get paid for 8 hours, rather than only getting paid once (or not at all due to exponential score on slush).  It seems nobody ever factors this in when comparing payouts.  The math shows quite clearly Guild will beat slush (NMC + paid Orphans will pay better than a 1% fee difference).
newbie
Activity: 47
Merit: 0
In my experience split mining, i make crap on BTCGuild regardless of the situation or hash rate.  if you want to use a backup pool, I recommend 50BTC.  I wish i'd mined 50/50 last night, but its best to throw 100% at a pool and stick with it to help increase the pools luck.

I agree with you on BTCGuild. In the 24 hour window I tested, I saw a better return on Slush then I saw on BTCGuild.  I just turned the load sharing back on to see if it would shake us out of that monster round. Annnnd since then we finished that round and put up another round twelve minutes later.  I guess it worked. I'll switch back to 100% Slush now. Next time, save the babies. Smiley

I'll look at 50BTC sometime later. I could always use them as a backup if Slush has an outage in the future.
member
Activity: 79
Merit: 10
I'm not "pool hopping", I've setup CGMiner to split my 12 Gh between Slush and (currently) BTCGuild.  So I'm currently still mining with Slush with roughly 6 Gh and roughly 6 Gh going towards BTCGuild. 

Is this a viable way to run one miner? Who knows for sure....

In my experience split mining, i make crap on BTCGuild regardless of the situation or hash rate.  if you want to use a backup pool, I recommend 50BTC.  I wish i'd mined 50/50 last night, but its best to throw 100% at a pool and stick with it to help increase the pools luck.
legendary
Activity: 1302
Merit: 1001
I'm not "pool hopping", I've setup CGMiner to split my 12 Gh between Slush and (currently) BTCGuild.  So I'm currently still mining with Slush with roughly 6 Gh and roughly 6 Gh going towards BTCGuild. 

Is this a viable way to run one miner? Who knows for sure....
can you tell us which pool you do better at? Just wondering with BTCGuild being 5 times larger?
newbie
Activity: 47
Merit: 0
I'm not "pool hopping", I've setup CGMiner to split my 12 Gh between Slush and (currently) BTCGuild.  So I'm currently still mining with Slush with roughly 6 Gh and roughly 6 Gh going towards BTCGuild. 

Is this a viable way to run one miner? Who knows for sure....
hero member
Activity: 868
Merit: 1000
We had one over 11 hours not too long ago.

Well, I experimented with pool load sharing with CGMiner just a few days ago. Maybe I'll turn it back on. Slush's pool had good luck while I was trying it out. So if the luck goes thru the roof later today...

Load sharing is a better word than "skipping"
If blocks like this become more common, then load sharing may help to spread the risk. 10 Gh miners were not too exposed in the past, but now, with 60 gh and bigger units......................!
If we had an automatic bias towards the pool showing the highest luck factor, built into the software, then it would be a winner.
newbie
Activity: 47
Merit: 0
We had one over 11 hours not too long ago.

Well, I experimented with pool load sharing with CGMiner just a few days ago. Maybe I'll turn it back on. Slush's pool had good luck while I was trying it out. So if the luck goes thru the roof later today...
hero member
Activity: 868
Merit: 1000
yesterday, six and a half hours followed by seven and a half hours.
today, 8 hours and still going.

If these long blocks paid more it would be a great result!!!!!!!!!

Edit:-  used all the babies yesterday

9 hours and counting
this must be a record, does anyone remember a longer block?
legendary
Activity: 1081
Merit: 1001
can someone sacrifice some newborn babies or something, this block is getting too long lol
I thought a virgin works better.
hero member
Activity: 868
Merit: 1000
yesterday, six and a half hours followed by seven and a half hours.
today, 8 hours and still going.

If these long blocks paid more it would be a great result!!!!!!!!!

Edit:-  used all the babies yesterday
member
Activity: 110
Merit: 10
can someone sacrifice some newborn babies or something, this block is getting too long lol
hero member
Activity: 868
Merit: 1000
Pool luck is down to 68%
6 hour block at lunchtime and nothing since

ouch
hero member
Activity: 490
Merit: 501
did the accounts page just get modified? I no longer see any namecoin info, and it does not seem to show the difficulty/suggested difficulty anymore...?

I am seeing (or not seeing) the same...  Anything official announced regarding these changes?

We knew NMC was going away. It looks like Slush decided that since he is Autoadjusting dificulty anyway, He'd get rid of the selectable default. Kind of makes sense to me.
newbie
Activity: 29
Merit: 0
did the accounts page just get modified? I no longer see any namecoin info, and it does not seem to show the difficulty/suggested difficulty anymore...?

I am seeing (or not seeing) the same...  Anything official announced regarding these changes?
legendary
Activity: 2128
Merit: 1005
ASIC Wannabe
did the accounts page just get modified? I no longer see any namecoin info, and it does not seem to show the difficulty/suggested difficulty anymore...?
member
Activity: 95
Merit: 10
Besides the stuck unconfirmed BTC balance right now, which I'm sure of will be fixed, It would have been nice if there had been an announcement on the site regarding the NMC payout. Something like : Hey guys, I'm gonna pay your namecoins after 6 months of inactivity. Be sure to check your wallet addresses !

Guess what : my NMC will be stuck in the blockchain forever.  Sad
sr. member
Activity: 260
Merit: 250
Okay, really want to know what is up.   No blocks since 258938 which have gone confirmed show up as confirmed in my account.   Switched my mining to another pool until this is resolved.
full member
Activity: 137
Merit: 100

Same problems here; it's just staying in the "Unconfirmed Reward" spot, so it's not lost... the system just seems a bit... constipated tonight.

russell
sr. member
Activity: 244
Merit: 280
Here's another strange bit.  Block 258938 has been confirmed a while ago yet my reward for that particular block is still unconfirmed and pending on my account page.  Any clue?  I wanna do a payout and zero out my balance but this is holding me up.

I have been watching this evening because something didn't seem right.  I just saw two blocks go confirmed but never added to my balance.  Also still unconfirmed and pending.  I hope the correct totals are in there somewhere, but what on earth is going on?
legendary
Activity: 1081
Merit: 1001
Here's another strange bit.  Block 258938 has been confirmed a while ago yet my reward for that particular block is still unconfirmed and pending on my account page.  Any clue?  I wanna do a payout and zero out my balance but this is holding me up.
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